Housing

As someone who lived in social housing as a child, and now rents privately, I’m very much aware of both the importance of social housing and the pressure on generation rent. I would do everything in my power to rebalance our housing needs.

As a Green MP I would support:

The capping of rent and introduce longer tenancies to provide greater protection for renters.

Abolishing the cruel and unfair bedroom tax.

Building 500,000 social rented homes and bring empty homes back into use to ensure everyone has access to an affordable place to live.

A renter’s union.

A national Warm Homes programme of insulation and retrofitting – bringing two million people out of fuel poverty, insulating nine million homes, and creating hundreds of thousands of jobs.